As I was reading it, I wondered if perhaps I was somehow cosmically thrust into some worm-hole time-warp back to 1955.
Mr. Petzer, who emphasizes that he also has mastered conventional scientific methods, studies ant heaps, fossilized worm-burrows and flowers.
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Thus far, they have discovered new species, such as worm-like beings called polychaetes, and new cold-water coral reefs.
They added that using a worm-like motion helped reduce the noise such machines produce, making them suitable "for reconnaissance purposes".
From what I understood, there is a species in Halo known as the Hunters which are made up of thousands of tiny, orange worm-like creatures.
They discovered that the most closely related parasite to the Onchocerca volvulus worm - the O. ochengi nematode - died after the bacteria living in it were killed by an ordinary antibiotic treatment of tetracycline.
In July and August, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center took the rare step of warning people around the world about the impending threat of the "Code Red" worm -- named after the soft drink favored by the security team that first analyzed it.
And was it really that same head, battered and worm-eaten, with an iron spike still rammed through the skull, that became a souvenir, a vulgar curiosity, a treasured relic and was finally in 1960 secretly laid to rest in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where the young Cromwell briefly studied?
This month's update issued patches for 49 vulnerabilities, including one that plugs a hole exploited by Stuxnet, the first-known worm designed to target real-world infrastructure such as power stations, water plants and industrial units.
But it might behove farmers to think more about how they use anti-worm drugs.
His Atlanta-based Carter Center has also established health programmes which have all but eradicated guinea-worm disease, and is successfully tackling river blindness.
Besides being a fancy toy for a very rich man, the phone enabled Mr. Stone to visually emphasize Gekko's early-bird-gets-the-worm work ethic: "There he was, prowling the beach at dawn, " says Mr. Stone.
"That little worm's-eye view" provided by digital research "turns out to be quite helpful if you want to classify texts word by word and shows us just how complex our judgments and reactions to plays are, " says Witmore.
According to internet security specialist Sophos, the worm is a variant of the well-known "Dorkbot" worm which has been spread by social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
In a cunning twist by the virus writers, an e-mail in wide circulation that purportedly offers a "fix" for the Sasser worm actually infects the user's computer with a different virulent worm, known as Netsky-AC.
It is believed to be the first-known worm designed to target major infrastructure facilities.
Guinea worm is a non-fatal disease transmitted by water fleas living in stagnant water.
Symantec observed virtually no targeted attacks before Stuxnet, a worm that attacked industrial-control systems, appeared in 2010.
She scrambles to the beaver dam and returns with an inch-long worm squirming on the tip of her finger.
Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body.
That boy was the first ever worm charming world champion - say that three times fast - an Englishman named Tom Shufflebotham - I'm not kidding.
Dai Zovi, coauthor of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, says JailbreakMe's sophistication is on a par with that of Stuxnet, a government-coded worm designed to infect Iran's nuclear facilities.
Rather than simply deleting files - which could then be undeleted - the worm resets the file size to zero bytes, making them much more difficult to recover.
Instead of the fail whale Thursday, some people who tried to log onto Twitter's website saw what looked to be a cartoon duo of an inch worm and a soft-serve ice-cream cone.
And if dead and decomposing bodies aren't your thing you can test your knowledge of the rules of taxonomic nomenclature by suggesting new names for five species of deep-sea worm, recently discovered around hydrothermal vents off Antarctica.
Guinea worm disease is usually non-fatal, but causes crippling pain and can immobilize its victims from being able to work, farm and function.
And the follow-on Nimda worm which attacked the same vulnerability (and even a backdoor left behind by CodeRed) was even more successful at spreading and causing harm.
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He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.
Think it was a lot of work preparing for--or recovering from--the recent Zotob worm?
Worse, the worm can "lobotomize" anti-virus software, Corman says, so that it appears to be running but has no effect.
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